Most produce in Vietnam is sold on the wet market; high-end, imported fruit are sold in western-style grocery stores. Vietnam, though still a Communist country, has one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia. High quality, imported fruits like table grapes, apples, citrus, and kiwis, have recently become popular with consumers, and for the first time, Pacific Northwest pears are also being shipped directly to the country. Rob Peterson, sales agent for Duckwall-Pooley Fruit Company in Odell, Oregon, traveled in February to visit a new client in Vietnam, Promitor Trading, Inc. While there, he participated in their grand opening of a […]